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New comic about Esperanto! Posted by Chuck Smith on Nov 1, 2014
The American comic artist, Dan Mazur, published a 12 page comic about native Esperanto speakers. The comic appeared as part of a comic anthology about subcultures. Libera Folio interviewed the author and you can read the Esperanto translation here. How did you get the idea? What was your objective? Earlier this year, I was beginning…
Learning Languages Through Esperanto Posted by Chuck Smith on Sep 2, 2014
Guest post by Judith Meyer, who normally blogs at learnlangs.com and currently crowdfunds a language course on Indiegogo. For many, Esperanto is an entry drug for language-learning. It’s so fun and easy and eventually you want the harder stuff. Most Esperanto speakers love learning languages, so it’s no surprise that there are some language-learning resources…
Lauren looks back at the challenge Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 27, 2014
About a month ago, I interviewed Lauren about her experience learning Esperanto in the Six Week Challenge. Now that the challenge is over, I’d like to revisit Lauren to see how things went. How has everything been studying Esperanto over the past weeks? To be honest, I wish I would have studied more so that…
Polyglot Gathering: much Esperanto spoken Posted by Chuck Smith on Jun 23, 2014
On June 15-18, polyglots (people who speak multiple languages) came to Berlin to enjoy a rich program with like-minded individuals at the Polyglot Gathering (at which Transparent Language was also a sponsor). In fact, whenever I had to explain our event to outsiders, I usually just said, “Our participants speak an average of six languages.”…
A German experiences NASK Posted by Chuck Smith on May 26, 2014
Last week, I interviewed Fábio Montiero about his participation in NASK and the awesome video he made about it. This week, I’m here with Lena, a German who attended the intermediate course at NASK last year! In case you missed last week’s interview, NASK is the Nordamerika Somera Kursaro where people interested in learning Esperanto…
Globeto films at NASK Posted by Chuck Smith on May 21, 2014
Today I’m with Fábio Monteiro, the Brazilian who made the cool videos about NASK! What is NASK you say? It stands for the Nordamerika Somera Kursaro where people interested in learning Esperanto get together to improve their Esperanto at an American university! A few years ago, I interviewed Ellen Eddy about their new format. This…
Lauren’s 6-week mission to learn Esperanto Posted by Chuck Smith on May 19, 2014
Today we’ll be talking with Lauren, who just started to learn Esperanto in Ireland. But, what makes this different from anyone else? Well, some of you may know Benny Lewis, the blogger of Fluent in Three Months (FI3M) who often challenges himself to learn a language in a short time and then blogs and talks…